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On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Julie Marchant <onp...@riseup.net> wrote: > And this is especially bad considering that of all the distros you > offered, Debian is the most user-friendly, if you distribute *stable, > stock* Debian. That was the only reason why I ordered some Debian cards. if you misunderstood and believed that you were buying a product, that you were placing an order, as opposed to helping reach the goal of bringing ethically-developed eco-conscious computing devices to mass-volume, then on the basis that i can only accept money from people who are 100% happy with the service that i am providing i am obligated, even though the components have been ordered from the factory, to offer you the opportunity to have your money returned to you. 100% integrity is *that* important to me, it takes *absolute* precedence. one of > Knowing that you are not delivering what I want to be on the card that > I'm going to give to my mother, I see now that this was completely > pointless. I'm going to have to do all of the work to make sure she has > a system she can use properly because you refuse to cooperate just by > delivering the current, stable, stock Debian. it's actually very simple to do (i wish it was as easy as using debian-installer): either find someone else's rootfs and literally just drop it onto the microsd card, or, if you cannot trust random arbitrary downloads from the internet of 4 gigabytes in size, look up debian qemu or debootstrap foreign architectures (which use qemu in headless mode i believe to run the final pre-preparation steps), and the job's pretty much done in under an hour. ... ah! here you are: https://wiki.debian.org/EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap#QEMU.2Fdebootstrap_approach it's really amazingly straightforward. > This is not something that personally affects me very much; I should be > able to figure out how to install Debian on my own, and I was planning > to do so anyway. great. it would be very helpful if you could document that process, so that others can benefit and also help you out. > But you are making it needlessly difficult for your > project to succeed by taking this zealous hardline stance against > systemd; julie: i'm sleeping for about 12 to 14 hours a day, i've some sort of virus that's affected my health for over 25 years and is increasing in its virulence, i haven't the *time* or energy to be zealous. it's much simpler than you imagine it to be, and it's down to a pathological systemic flaw in the way that software libre is developed (as a world-wide community). i'm deeply disturbed by the way in which systemd has been developed and deployed: it's unethical in ways that go beyond acceptable boundaries which the actual *software license* simply doesn't cover. i haven't the time or energy to spend on it, and its unethical development and deployment is not something i can endorse or distribute to people who are trusting me to deliver them ethically-developed hardware *and software*. i don't expect everyone to understand that. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk